District of Calenberg

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The Sprengel Calenberg was an administrative district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .

history

The Sprengel Calenberg based in Hanover was from Bishop August Marahrens as part of the reorganization of the Church's central authorities on 15 June 1936. the church districts of the former principality of Calenberg , (Börry, Coppenbrügge, Gross Berkel-Hameln, Hanover I-III, Hannover-Linden Hannover-Schloßkirche, Neustadt / Rbg. , Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Springe and Wunstorf ). The creation of the state superintendent was a reaction to the abolition of the general superintendent and the introduction of "provosts" by the German Christians two years earlier and was rejected by the German Christians as "the work of reactionaries who did not understand the spirit of the National Socialist movement". It was also criticized as "episcopalism" by strict representatives of the confessional community. Nevertheless, the function of regional bishops in the Hanoverian regional church prevailed and has been retained in changing district boundaries to this day.

In 1937 the former Hessian church district Grafschaft Schaumburg was affiliated to the Sprengel Calenberg. With the resignation of the Verden-Hoya state superintendent Ernst Lienhop from office, the state superintendent of Calenberg was additionally entrusted with the supervision of the church districts of Hoya, Nienburg, Stolzenau and Syke. In 1957 the four Hanoverian church districts were separated and a separate district of Hanover was formed from them. At the same time carried out the dissolution of the former parish Verden-Hoya, who - without at Stade votes church districts Verden and Rotenburg and the Church District Sulingen, of the diocese Osnabrück fell - with Calenberg to Sprengel Calenberg-Hoya was pooled. The previously Calenberg church districts Bodenwerder and Coppenbrügge were added to the Hildesheim district.

State superintendent

The only state superintendent for Calenberg was Theodor Laasch .

literature

  • Hans Otte: 50 years of state superintendencies in the Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 84 (1986), pp. 245–255.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Otte: 50 years of state superintendencies in the Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover . In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony 84 (1986), p. 246.